U.S. rebuked in terrorism case
A conservative-leaning federal appellate court in Virginia on Wednesday sharply rebuked the Bush administration for its handling of the high profile terrorism case against Jose Padilla, ruling that he cannot...
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FBI wants loan brokers to fight mortgage fraud
A crackdown on mortgage fraud by federal law-enforcement agencies will have limited impact without better self-policing in the home sales industry, including more information from mortgage brokers about suspicious activity,...
Atta known to Pentagon before 9/11
Four years after the nation's deadliest terror attack, evidence is accumulating that a super-secret Pentagon intelligence unit identified the organizer of the Sept. 11 hijackings, Mohamed Atta, as an Al...
Top FEMA leaders short on experience
Top officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency have strong political connections to President Bush, but they also share at least one other trait: They had little or no experience...
Hoosier roots, a `solid Midwest guy’
When President Bush nominated John Roberts Jr. as a federal appeals court judge two years ago, the star lawyer became a sort of poster boy for what Republicans thought was...
Bombings reminder of U.S. vulnerability
The deadly terrorist strike on London commuters last week was a reminder of what U.S. authorities have warned since Sept. 11: Another attack in this country is a near certainty....
Paris-to-Chicago flight turned back as name pops up on no-fly list
A man on the U. S. government's "no-fly" list was headed from Paris to Chicago Friday before U.S. authorities vetting the flight's manifest discovered his name and told the airline...
Attacks a reminder of public transit perils in U.S.
While authorities boosted security around U.S. public transit systems, the deadly London bombings Thursday underscored the vulnerability of this country's surface transit network--because of its vast size and the lack...
Politics could shape succession process
The list of possible successors to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is likely to be shaped by a volatile mix of political considerations related to gender and ethnicity, and it could...
INSIDE HASTERT INC.
In his first campaign for the Illinois legislature nearly a quarter-century ago, Dennis Hastert had a problem. He had plenty of campaign posters, but no wooden stakes to make yard...